King-liu Wu dead at 84

King-lui Wu, formerly professor of architecture at Yale University was dead on August 15, 2002
at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Professor Liu, born in Guangzhou, China, graduated from Harvard
University with B.A. and Master's degrees. He taught at Yale from 1945 to 1988. "The way
one lit a building was that one flipped a switch. He emphasized that buildings needed to breathe
and that natural light brought them to life ... one of the great threads of the school," said Robert
A.M. Stern, his former student now the dean of the school. Professor is survived by his wife,
Vivian Wei-Chu Wu and two daughters and a son.